Credulity Quote by Christopher Hitchens

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.

— George Santayana

Radical skepticism is no more critical than is credulity.

— Craig A. Evans

Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.

— Stephen Jay Gould

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

— Thomas Jefferson

I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.

— Anonymous

A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.

— William E. Gladstone

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Skepticism is a discipline fit to purify the mind of prejudice and render it all the more apt, when the time comes, to believe…

— George Santayana

All that the posture of skepticism accomplishes is to freeze the ego in an ignorantist poverty that never stretches or diversifies its resources of…

— Kenny Smith

“Skepticism is certainly a beneficial tool, to the extent that it yields a dialectic of ideas that can progress toward empirical resolution of difficult…

— Jaak Panksepp

There is no skepticism without science and the scientific method. It's about how we know what we know.

— Steven Novella